Civic Accountability · Nigeria

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Previously in Kogi:
Term report
5
Total tracked
4
Kept
0
Partial / mixed
0
Broken
Kept
Partial / mixed
Broken
In progress
Fiscal
Clear inherited salary and leave-bonus arrears
Kept
The promise
Promised to resolve unpaid worker entitlements inherited at the start of the tenure.
Assessment
Cleared inherited unpaid leave bonuses and two months of unpaid salaries within a few months of taking office in May 2003.
Governance
Improve civil service pay
Kept
The promise
Promised improved remuneration for Kogi's civil servants.
Assessment
Implemented salary relativity and a new minimum wage, making Kogi civil servants among the best-paid in the country, and avoided mass retrenchment while keeping salaries, allowances and bonuses paid as due.
Infrastructure
Deliver major infrastructure and social projects
Kept
The promise
Promised significant infrastructure investment across Kogi State.
Assessment
Delivered the International Market, a Specialist Hospital, Confluence Stadium, the Greater Lokoja Water Scheme, housing estates, dualised major roads in Lokoja, and built roughly 2,000 four-classroom primary school blocks.
Governance
Secure a legally sound re-election mandate
Kept
The promise
Implicit in seeking re-election in 2007: hold a mandate that would withstand legal challenge.
Assessment
His 2007 re-election was annulled in October 2007 after a court found INEC had wrongly excluded ANPP's Abubakar Audu from the ballot; the Court of Appeal upheld the annulment in February 2008 and ordered a fresh election, which Idris went on to win in the March 2008 rerun.
Governance
Transparent, accountable use of state funds
disputed
The promise
Campaigned on accountable stewardship of Kogi's public funds.
Assessment
A group calling itself Kogi Patriots petitioned the EFCC alleging looting of the state under Idris; no independently confirmed charge or conviction against him personally was identified in available reporting.